RorschachianaPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000097
Tinkara Pavšič Mrevlje
{"title":"Police Trauma and Rorschach Indicators: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Tinkara Pavšič Mrevlje","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000097","url":null,"abstract":"This study is the first to our knowledge to focus on posttraumatic symptomatology among crime scene investigators (CSIs) and explore its relationship with their personality functioning as measured by Rorschach. Considering that posttraumatic symptomatology can affect decision-making, which is of crucial importance in police work, police officers’ evaluations should include an assessment of trauma-related impairments. The study was carried out on a sample of 64 male CSIs (85% of all Slovene CSIs). Posttraumatic symptomatology was found to be more frequent among CSIs than among the general population. Avoidance appears to be a predominant personality characteristic defending CSIs from emotionally overwhelming work situations. CSIs show less conventional, but still appropriate, cognitive mediation; however, a more detailed analysis indicates that the group with the highest posttraumatic symptomatology exhibits severely disrupted mediational processes, presumably because of negative affect. Rorschach was found to be a suitable method for such assessments, particularly because it unfolds psychological functioning related to traumatic experience but not necessarily linked to symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and not necessarily recognized by the traumatized individual.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"54 1","pages":"1–19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80184698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2017-11-10DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000094
C. Mormont, Patrick Fontan
{"title":"Sex Assignment to Whole Human Responses in Rorschach","authors":"C. Mormont, Patrick Fontan","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000094","url":null,"abstract":"According to the theory of identification, men are more likely to qualify their Rorschach human content responses as males, and women as females. These assumptions were tested in an empirical investigation using a Belgian nonpatient sample of 800. All human responses and their location were listed. Analyses were carried out on the 10 Cards and on the formal quality (FQo vs. FQu/−) of all human responses according to the subject’s and the examiner’s sex. Variables were first submitted to principal component analysis, and resulting components were compared in a 2 × 2 design in order to assess examiners’ and participants’ sex potential effects on human responses sex assignments. Univariate and multivariate ANOVA revealed no or only negligible differences. In a second step, distributions of masculine, feminine, and neutral human responses across 16 card locations that commonly elicit human responses were submitted to hierarchical clustering in order to identify masculine, feminine, and neutral locations in Rorschach cards. Chi-square tests revealed no significant association between participants’ sex and human responses locations. Results do not corroborate predictions according to the theory of identification but they do, however, highlight the role of the distal features of blots.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"57 1","pages":"108–128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86715153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2017-11-10DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000095
A. Bertran, M. T. F. Nistal
{"title":"Cultural Differences in the Emotional Indicators of the Two-People Drawing Test","authors":"A. Bertran, M. T. F. Nistal","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000095","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to identify differences in the emotional indicators attributable to cultural variables in the Two Human Figures Test (T2F) of Maganto and Garaigordobil (2009) and to obtain standards of the test for the Indian Yaqui children (Mexico). A representative sample of 654 children aged 5–11 years was used. We conducted a validation study of the emotional items for this sample that met the three criteria established by the authors: (1) they distinguish between clinical and nonclinical groups, (2) they are not developmental, and (3) they have a low frequency (less than 10%). The results show large differences in the presence of emotional indicators between this sample and the original Spanish group used to construct the T2F. Only six of the 35 emotional indicators found in the Spanish sample are valid for this representative sample of Yaqui children. Possible causes of this discrepancy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"66 1","pages":"129–142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86416870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2017-11-10DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000092
C. Vari, P. Velotti, A. Crisi, S. Carlesimo, A. Richetta, Giulio Cesare Zavattini
{"title":"Investigating Personality and Psychopathology in Patients With Psoriasis","authors":"C. Vari, P. Velotti, A. Crisi, S. Carlesimo, A. Richetta, Giulio Cesare Zavattini","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000092","url":null,"abstract":"A broad range of literature reported higher rates of psychopathology and personality disorders among patients affected by skin conditions. Specifically, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations are more frequently reported by patients affected by skin diseases. This study aimed to examine psychopathology and personality in a group of patients affected by psoriasis by means of a self-report measure (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory – MCMI-III) and a performance-based technique (Wartegg Drawing Completion Test [WDCT], CWS). Study results showed a higher rate of passive-aggressiveness and paranoia among psoriatic patients (MCMI-III). When assessing patients through the performance-based technique (WDCT, CWS), a higher rate of global rejection (GR) – linked by previous literature to suicidal ideation – and a lower affective quality of the drawings emerged. We discuss the clinical importance of detecting psychological issues in dermatology patients by means of a multimethod assessment that goes beyond patients’ self-evaluation of their symptoms and emotions.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"101 1","pages":"87–107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74964387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2017-11-10DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000096
F. Miguel, Marcia Caroline Portela Amaro, Eduardo Yudi Huss, A. Zuanazzi
{"title":"Emotional Perception and Distortion Correlates With Rorschach Cognitive and Interpersonal Variables","authors":"F. Miguel, Marcia Caroline Portela Amaro, Eduardo Yudi Huss, A. Zuanazzi","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000096","url":null,"abstract":"Although emotional intelligence is frequently measured with performance tasks, they are often correlated with self-report measures of personality. The present research compared the scores of two performance tests: the Rorschach Inkblot Method for personality (scored using R-PAS), and the Computerized Test of Primary Emotions Perception for emotional perception and understanding, branches of emotional intelligence. Participants were 93 Brazilian people, including undergraduates and psychiatric outpatients. Significant correlations were found, ranging from .20 to .37. The results indicate that the ability to perceive emotional expressions in people’s faces is related to empathy and interest in human interaction, attention to details, integrative thinking, and complex cognitive processing. Distortion in emotional perception, that is perceiving emotions that were not present, correlated with thought and perception disturbances.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"30 1","pages":"143–159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77001170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2017-07-13DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000088
J. Yalof
{"title":"Discussion of Special Issue Articles “A Rorschach Case Study: Multiple Psychoanalytic Models of Interpretation”","authors":"J. Yalof","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000088","url":null,"abstract":"Psychoanalytic theory offers multiple ways of organizing clinical data. In this paper, I comment on the preceding papers and offer an integrative discussion of Rorschach test analyses from the perspectives of object relations, ego psychology, interpersonal psychology, self psychology, and attachment theory. Each theory approaches the case somewhat differently, highlights different data points, and focuses on different inferences. In the end, however, each separate analysis reaches a similar endpoint with respect to the identification of core themes as manifested on the Rorschach test.","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"5 1","pages":"71–82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74349951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differences in Brain Hemodynamics in Response to Achromatic and Chromatic Cards of the Rorschach: A fMRI Study.","authors":"Masahiro Ishibashi, Chigusa Uchiumi, Minyoung Jung, Naoki Aizawa, Kiyoshi Makita, Yugo Nakamura, Daisuke N Saito","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000076","DOIUrl":"10.1027/1192-5604/a000076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b></b> In order to investigate the effects of color stimuli of the Rorschach inkblot method (RIM), the cerebral activity of 40 participants with no history of neurological or psychiatric illness was scanned while they engaged in the Rorschach task. A scanned image of the ten RIM inkblots was projected onto a screen in the MRI scanner. Cerebral activation in response to five achromatic color cards and five chromatic cards were compared. As a result, a significant increase in brain activity was observed in bilateral visual areas V2 and V3, parietooccipital junctions, pulvinars, right superior temporal gyrus, and left premotor cortex for achromatic color cards (<i>p</i> < .001). For the cards with chromatic color, significant increase in brain activity was observed in left visual area V4 and left orbitofrontal cortex (<i>p</i> < .001). Furthermore, a conjoint analysis revealed various regions were activated in responding to the RIM. The neuropsychological underpinnings of the response process, as described by Acklin and Wu-Holt (1996), were largely confirmed.</p>","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"37 1","pages":"41-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302018/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2013-06-03DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/A000039
C. Berghout, Jolien Zevalkink, Abraham N. J. Pieters, G. Meyer
{"title":"Rorschach-CS scores of six groups of patients: Evaluated before, after and two years after long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis","authors":"C. Berghout, Jolien Zevalkink, Abraham N. J. Pieters, G. Meyer","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604/A000039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/A000039","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we used a quasiexperimental, cross-sectional design with six cohorts differing in phase of treatment (pretreatment, posttreatment, 2-year posttreatment) and treatment type (psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy) and investigated scores on 39 Rorschach-CS variables. The total sample consisted of 176 participants from four mental health care organizations in The Netherlands. We first examined pretreatment differences between patients entering psychoanalysis and patients entering psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The two treatment groups did not seem to differ substantially before treatment, with the exception of the level of ideational problems. Next, we studied the outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy by comparing the Rorschach-CS scores of the six groups of patients. In general, we found significant differences between pretreatment and posttreatment on a relatively small number of Rorschach-CS variables. More pre/post differences were found between the psychoanaly...","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"124 1","pages":"24-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90688226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RorschachianaPub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604.27.1.3
J. Exner
{"title":"Comment on “Science and Soul”","authors":"J. Exner","doi":"10.1027/1192-5604.27.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604.27.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39365,"journal":{"name":"Rorschachiana","volume":"39 1","pages":"3-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83596255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}